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Healthy Diets and Sustainable Development Goals

Tinatsei Gabriella Chigumete1, Seema Rath2, Sean James Bosman3, Sunitha Chandrasekhar Srinivas1★★ Corresponding author

  1. 1Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, SOUTH AFRICA.
  2. 2Hugh Kelly Fellow, Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, SOUTH AFRICA /Department of Economics, Government College, Khandola-Goa, INDIA.
  3. 3Department of English, Rhodes University, SOUTH AFRICA.

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Sunitha Chandrasekhar Srinivas

Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, SOUTH AFRICA.

s.srinivas@ru.ac.za

Volume 9, Issue 2 · pp. 102–105 · PUBLISHED · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.9.2.7

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ABSTRACT

Populations throughout the world are facing immense challenges caused by a global rise in non-communicable diseases and ongoing economic crises. Non-communicable diseases impose a large financial burden on many populations, but there continues to be an underinvestment in factors that negatively affect health. One of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goal 3 is to reduce non-communicable diseases by one third. Evidence shows that diet-related non-communicable diseases are the leading cause of death and morbidity, and that their burden is likely to increase if urgent remedial actions are not initiated on a large scale. Successful implementation and execution of diet-related health promoting policies are required to promote sustainable human development. Control measures and improved understanding of the benefits of healthy diets, as well as changes in population attitudes and practices towards healthier diets are required to reduce the prevalence of diet-related noncommunicable diseases successfully. Programs that are currently implemented have not reduced the burden of diseases significantly due to narrow goals and their limited rates of implementation.

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    Chigumete, T. G., Rath, S., Bosman, S. J., & Srinivas, S. C. (). Healthy Diets and Sustainable Development Goals. Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 9(2), 102–105. https://doi.org/10.5530/ijopp.9.2.7